Compound for manufacturing artificial fuel.



NITED STATES PATENT when;

GEORGE D. PLATT, OF'LITOHFIELD, ILLINOIS, Assieivos' TO FRANK BURNES ANDM. BOLEY, orsr. LOUIS, inssooni.

COMPOUND FORNIANUFACTURING ARTI ICIAL FuEL Application filed December4,1906. Serial No. 290,330.

Be it knownthat 1,.GEORGE D. Fund, a

. citizen of the United States of America, residin'g'in the city ofL'itchfield, county of Monting Artificial Fuel, which is fully gomery,State of Illinois, have invented a' new and useful Compound forManufacturset forth in the following s' ecification. v

This invention relates to a compoundifor producing artificial fuelwhereby a very low grade of culm, coal-dust, or. the like may beutilized in the production of fuel of great efficiency either for theproduction of steam, heating purposes or for the various kinds ofdomestic use; and the invention consists of certain novel features ofcombination of elements, which are hereinafter clearly set forth-that isto say, the artificial fuel composition or compound consists of thefollow-- 'ing ingredients, combined, substantially in proportion asherein set forth: potato pulp, ve pounds; cornmeal, five pounds; rice,

three ounds; clay, two hundred pounds; alum, ve pounds; borax,fourpounds; sulfate of zinc, eight ounces; rosin, five pounds;Washing-soda, six ounces; gum-shellac, five ounces; laundry soap, two.bars; common salt, ten pounds, glucose, eight ouncesf In carrying outthis invention five pounds of potato ulp, five vpounds of cornmeal,

three poun s of rice, five pounds of'alum,

four pounds of bora eight ounces of sulfate of zinc, five pounds ofrosin, six ounces of 49 v v 5 com ound is then removed from the heat andwashing-soda, five ounces of gum-shellac, two bars of laundry soap, tenpounds of com' mon salt, and eight ounces of glucose are to bethoroughlycommingled by heat and agitation, and when these elements arethoroughly commingled the compound is thickened by adding-two hundredpounds vof clay. The

, let ry. 'When the compound is sufficiently dry, mix it with ten tonsof'oulm, coal-slack,"

or the like. All being mixed thoroughly, the

Specification of Letters Patent.

pounds of rice,

Eatented Oct. 23, 1906.

sult of this will be that-ten tons ofculii coal5 '5- 5 slack, or thelike mixed as above stated" is converted into ten tons of marketablecoaljor fuel, which can be used in any ordinarystove, 'f boiler, orfurnace, either for domestic or manufacturing purposes, and which will 60 have the same heat-giving, powers as that possessed by'the best gradeof anthracite or 3 bituminous coal. The coal or: fuel will be smokeless,cinderless, and odorless, and er- 11 fectly clean to handle, being freefrom I net 651" and'all 'odors. r v I am aware that a composition ofcrude 'oil- 0r cake-meal, salt, and aceticacidhasbeen used for-thesanie'purpose; but I am not aware that all the ingredients of my; compo-7o 'sition as set forth above have been .used together as a compound.

Iclaim as myinvention A co mpound consisting of, five pounds. ofpotato-pulp, five pounds of borax, eight ounces of sulfate of zinc, fiveminds of rosin, six ounces of wash-. ing-soda, ve ounces of gum-shellac,two bars of laundry soap, ten'pounds ofjcommon salt, a:

eight ounces of glucose, "and two hundred poundsof. clay, ,all incombination with ten tons of coal-slack, culin, or the like.

GEORGE n. PLATT.

' Witnesses: I I

i E. M.' BOLEY,

Gno. D. TAYLOR.

ounds of cornmeal, three 7 5 .ve' pounds 'of alum, four

